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American imperialism has said and done many obscene things over the decades. And right up there is the response of the Biden administration to the Taliban’s surge following the staggered withdrawal of American and NATO forces. ‘They’ve got to fight for themselves’, President Biden said of the Afghan people. They must ‘fight for their nation’, he continued. There was a chastising tone to his comments. ‘Get your act together’, he was essentially saying. ‘Do something.’ It is difficult to fathom the levels of arrogance it must require to leave a country ruined, and effectively to pave the way for the...

The Orlando nightclub terrorist who pledged allegiance to ISIS worked almost a decade for a major Department of Homeland Security contractor, raising alarms that ISIS sympathizers and agents have infiltrated the federal agency set up after 9/11 to combat terrorists. Officials say Omar Mir Seddique Mateen, an Afghan-American who held two firearms licenses and a security officer license, was employed by the security firm G4S Secure Solutions USA Inc. since Sept. 10, 2007. The Jupiter, Fla.-based company merged with the Wackenhut Corp. after 9/11 and assumed federal contracts.

The Wreck Of the John F’n KerryThe Wreck Of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot Parody by LonePalm The legend lives on from the Kennedys on down Of the island they called ‘Chappaquiddick' The voters it’s said, never vote for the dead When the Polls of November turn gloomy. With baggage galore, some twenty-six hundred votes more Than the John F’n Kerry cast rightly. His candidacy too was a bone to be chewed When the Polls of November came early. This hack was the pride of the Democrat side Sounding like some rich twit from South Boston. As the big...